Bowl of Flowers

Thoroughbred racehorse infobox
horsename = Bowl of Flowers


caption =
sire = Sailor
grandsire = Eight Thirty
dam = Flower Bowl
damsire = Alibhai
sex = Filly
foaled = 1958
country = United States flagicon|USA
colour = Chestnut
breeder = Brookmeade Stud
owner = Brookmeade Stable
trainer = Elliott Burch
record = 16: 10-3-3
earnings = $398,504
race = National Stallion Stakes (1960)
Gardenia Stakes (1960)
Frizette Stakes (1960)
Spinster Stakes (1961)
Acorn Stakes (1961)
Coaching Club American Oaks (1961)
awards= U.S. Champion two-year-old filly (1960)
U.S. Champion three-year-old filly (1961)
honours = United States' Racing Hall of Fame (2004)
updated= March 10, 2007

Bowl of Flowers (1958-not found) was an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred Champion racehorse.

Bowl of Flowers was the product of two horses owned by Isabel Dodge Sloane. Bred at Ms Sloane's Brookmeade Stud in Upperville, Virginia, her sire was Sailor, winner of the 1955 Pimlico Special, and her dam was Flower Bowl, for whom the Flower Bowl Invitational Stakes at Belmont Park is named.

Racing under the banner of Ms Sloane's Brookmeade Stable, Bowl of Flowers was trained by Elliott Burch. At age two, in her eight starts the filly won six races and finished second twice. Her performances earned her 1960 Champion Two-Year-Old Filly honors. At age three, she continued her winning ways, capturing two of the Triple Tiara of Thoroughbred Races and finishing second in the third. Once again, Bowl of Flowers' performances earned her the U.S. Champion three-year-old filly title.

While training at Hialeah Park Race Track in Florida for the 1962 racing season, Bowl of Flowers fractured a sesamoid bone and was retired. As a broodmare, her seven foals included the colt Spruce Bouquet who won the 1981 Hawthorne Gold Cup Handicap.

In 2004, Bowl of Flowers was inducted in the United States' National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.

References

* [http://www.pedigreequery.com/bowl+of+flowers Bowl of Flowers' pedigree and racing stats]
* [http://www.racingmuseum.org/hall/horse.asp?ID=404 Bowl of Flowers at the United States' National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame]